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Goldman Sachs: Google Blocked Access to Email Sent by Mistake

posted by n1 on Friday July 04 2014, @11:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-big-to-suffer-the-consequences dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Reuters reports:

Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a "needless and massive" breach of privacy.

The breach occurred on June 23 and included "highly confidential brokerage account information," Goldman said in a complaint filed last Friday in a New York state court in Manhattan.

Ars Technica reports:

At the request of investment bank Goldman Sachs, Google has blocked access to a sensitive e-mail that the bank mistakenly sent to a random Gmail account. Google confirmed to Goldman Sachs that the e-mail had not yet been opened by the recipient, according to a report late Wednesday from Reuters.

The e-mail in question, filled with confidential brokerage account information, was accidentally sent to a gmail.com address instead of a gs.com address by a contractor on June 23. Goldman Sachs tried to contact the e-mail account holder and then got in touch with Google, which initially said it would not take action without a court order. Goldman Sachs then filed for such a court order in a New York state court.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:26AM

    by edIII (791) on Saturday July 05 2014, @03:26AM (#64413)

    Maybe that document needs to be reviewed by an independent court ( with civilian jury ) to see if the warrant is justified.

    I think that should have been absolutely required. The minimum bar is that the judge has seen the content in question, verified the email on the account *was* the content in question. Preferably accomplished with an independent consultant hired by the court to carry out the judges order.

    Otherwise, this is just Goldman Sachs removing content from the Internet just because they can. That's a level of inequality that just pushes it too far for me. How above the law and disconnected from reality to these people get to be?

    It would be one thing if they went to the moon and back or were offering something concrete to society. As it is, they are just criminals and parasites wrt the US economic system.

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